F, , ida .)1 , March 6, 1973 Mike n al lace (origi . nal lost, takenfrom ca·rbon) PARIS FOLLOW SPRJNGFTEL . D O v e,·seas - in Paris - more of the same tonight from the President's top foreign polir ,• advisor. Henry Kissinger appearing in filmed inter v iew - on F · rench television. There expressing confidence the U . S. will achieve r,eace in Vietnam - as he put it - "in the first term of this Administration." Either · by negotiation - said he - or else "Vietnamization . " SAN ANTONIO The latest from San Antonio : A report today that former President Johnson is up and around again. His chest pains a PP are n t l y gone - his heartbeat once a ga in s tea d y and s · mooth . His doctors goi,ig so far as to say the former President "can and will" return to normal activity - "if his progress continues as expected." Good news . SPRINGFIELD For First Lad _ v Pat Nixon - a final stop today at Springfield, Missouri - enro11te back to Washington . Mrs . Nixon there remarking that she tliozcght her tour of college volunteer projects - had been a success: "because" - said she - "the stlldents said so . " Mrs. Nixon added that she had disco v ered : "I was11't as old as I seem - and there is no generation gap . " What about those anti-war protestors - who surfaced occasionally along her trail? She hadn't seen them - said Mrs . Nixon. As for her own feelings on the war - the First Lady saying : "I think that man y things are going on now - that peace is just around the corner." KEY BISCAYNE In response lo charges of in . creasing U . s . involvement i11 Laos - a special statement toda.v from the Florida White Ho11se. PresidPnl Nixon attempting to explain - why we 're there . Additionally. spelling out in more p · recise detail the limited 11at11>·e of current U. s. acti v ities there. Adding that the U . S . has "no plans - for introducing ground combat forces in Laos." However. the President asserted that North Vietnameae t r o op s i n t h a t c o ,, " I ,. y - h a v e r e c en ti y b e e n in c r e as e d to sixty-seven tho14sand men . A force that new threatens to penetrate government territory - further than ever before - sti d he . appealed In view of which - tile President ••111111 ~ to Soviet Premier Kosygin - also. Britain's Harold Wilson. Urging a joint East-West effort - in resto> · ing to Laos the neut>·alist status originally en v isioned b y the Nineteen-Sixty- Two Gene a Agreements . Th e p r e s ; de n t ' s go i ,, g o II t o s a _ v : " H e de s i re " o t Ii in g more in Laos - than lo see a return to the Gene v a Ag1·eeme,rts KEY BJSCA YNE - 2 and the witl,drawal of North Vietnamese troops, leaving the L110s people to settle their own differences- in a peaceful way . " WASHINGTON FOLLOW KEY BISCAYNE A sho r t time later - i n Washing t on - the Laotian Ambassador to the U . S . issued a similar statement . Kltamking Sou v a,ilas y asserting that his go v ernment - does 11ot want American g r ound forces operating in Laos. Further, it's doing its utmost - said he - to prevent a war like that in V i etnam. The Ambassador then went on from there - accusing ce1•tain American Senators of playing politics with the war in Laos. He also criticized - American press coverage of the war. O b serving it's apparently "all right to criticize U. s. acti v ity in Laos - but not to criticize Communist aggression . " (SUGGESTED LEAD-IN TO THOMAS TA . PE SLUGGED "JORDAN-VESTER PARK") Next - Lowell Thomas; reporting tonight - from Old Jerllsulem . Lowell ... L. T. laf)e insert - unedited JORDAN-VESTER PARK G o o d e en in g, e L' e r y h o d _,, - a g a i,, fro m The Holy land . Although I am on my wav t . o the Himalayas T stopped off here in the Middle East to pa, , a brief visit to Jerusalem. For more tha11 fifty _vea,·s, since I was u , ith Allen by 's army w h e n it was s w e e fJ i n g t h e T" ,. k s o u t of P ,, l e s t in e , S in a i a n d Syria - and Lebanon, loo - I've been interested in the social service, humanitarian work of Americans in Jerusalem. The one time famous editor of The New York Times, Dr . John Finely, was the first /)resident of The American Colony Charities Association . He was succeeded by Dr . Fosdick of the New York Riverside Church, then by Dr. and Afrs. Peale uf Marble Collegiate in New York, and for a long time I too ha v e bee11 o,i the boa,·d - and President in recent y ears . II I a s all start ' ed h_v a modern Florence Nightingale, Bertha Vester, da11gl1ter of a Chicago lawyer . She li ve d in J er us a le m f o r e i g I, t )' - s e ,, e n - . Ye a rs . a II d two _v ears ago died ./ 0 RD . .\ .V - t,· E,; TE R P . .\ R K - :! a t a I( 11 " , " t , .. 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Johann later lPlling the Judge: "I only wanted to open her eyes." Anyway - the story has a hat,t,y ending, sort of. Man a n d wife - happily re u n it e d ; or, a t le as t , th e y w il l be rohen he gets out of jail - in two years. 1 1 NITE'IJ N \T/ONS .4 / / It e l II i / <' tf NII / i O II S - It e ,- C i II N e If } ' 0 ,- k - tit { ! .f oe-us of allc11lio11 l11r11ed /oda,• lo lite self-proclaimed /l <' p II b I i c o.t R It odes i" . B ,. i I a i 11 ' s f_, o r d C a Y a d o II a s k i II g t I, e l . N . Securil _ \J Co1111cil lo pass a resolution - barring a,iy "' c m b c ,. - s I a I e f,. om c x t e 11 <i in g off i c i a l rec o g 11 it i on t o tit e b ,, c a k a , a _,. c o 1 o 11 _ , • • Lord Caradon asserting that what the w h it e - r u I e d go ,. e r n m e 11 l of R h odes i a "" a ,z ts m ore than anything" - what it needs nio1•e than a11)1tliing - "is to be 1·ecog11ized . " LTP.1970.03.06i.pdf LTP.1970.03.06ii.pdf